Lexicographical Neighbors of Ctenes
Literary usage of Ctenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiological Views of the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the by Thomas Hare (1824)
"... from their office of dividing the food; and ctenes (ctenes a comb or rake),
because, when badly formed and arranged, they sometimes resemble the teeth ..."
2. The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of by Frank Maloy Anderson (1904)
"... to hold its sitting with the King, it replied that to transfer itself there
was beneath its dignity; from that moment the ctenes of horror were renewed. ..."
3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"... fused together and so disposed as to form a series of swimming plates called
combs or ctenes. The meridional rows are termed ribs or costae, ..."
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